Hi Pim,
That would be an example of macro evolution, for sure. Are you suggesting
a change from a single cell organism to a multi cell organism has been
observed to occur by "random mutation and natural selection"?
Perhaps you are thinking of symbiosis, such as is theorized to have occurred
in the formation of the eukaryote cell. I wouldn't think "random mutation and
natural selection" has anything to do with symbiosis. Symbiosis is a
collection of individual actions. In each case, one or the other, or both,
of the symbiots acted to form the symbiosis. A materialist might call such
actions random, in that causation is unknown. "Choice", which to some degree
characterizes of all life, is actually as supernatural as any god. Extreme
materialists, such as socio biologists, go so far as to suggest choice
doesn't even exist in humans. They have thought up complex just-so stories
to explain an "evolution" of all human traits, including altruism, by "random
mutation and natural selection". Most of the extreme materialists I've known
claim free will, like "the appearance of design" in nature, is merely an
illusion.
Do you believe free will exists?
Bertvan